Sunday, November 24, 2024

French FM says UK can fire long-range missiles into Russia

Britain's public broadcaster BBC on Saturday quoted French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot as saying in an interview that Ukraine could fire French long-range missiles into Russia in "self-defense." But the BBC said Barrot would not confirm whether French weapons had already been used.

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... This comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country launched a new medium-range hypersonic ballistic missile into eastern Ukraine on Thursday.

He said the move was in retaliation for attacks on Russia's territory that were carried out with longer-range missiles provided by the US and Britain.

France has supplied Ukraine with SCALP cruise missiles, which have a range of over 250 kilometers. ...



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-24 06:29 PM

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... Ukraine's Security Service showed The Associated Press on Sunday wreckage of the new experimental ballistic missile, which struck a factory in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro.

The fragments of the missile called Oreshnik -" Russian for hazel tree, and which the Pentagon said is based on Russia's RS-26 Rubezh intercontinental ballistic missile -" have not been analyzed yet, according to security officials on site in an undisclosed location in Ukraine. The AP and other media were able to see the fragments before they were taken by investigators. ...


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#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-24 06:32 PM

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... Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a televised message Thursday that Moscow has the right to strike the military targets of countries who have supplied weapons to Ukraine to hit Russia.

Putin's statements came after Russia launched a new intermediate-range missile at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro in response to Kyiv's long-range missile attacks earlier this week. ...


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-24 06:34 PM

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